Cigarette



(No Model.)

B. S. WITTHAUS. Cigarette.

No. 229,931. Patented July is, 1880.

Waive/mm f nuan/fibr w. 14mm 4 ww W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERIOH L. WITTHAUS, on BALTIMOR MARYLAND.

CIGARETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming or Letter! Patent No. 229,931, dated July 13, 1880.

-' 1 AppDcationfilsdAp1il15,1B80. (Remodel-l To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Enron L. WITTHAUB, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigarettes, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to certain improvements in cigarettes, and has for its objectto provide for placing any imprinted device on the mouth en d of acigarette without theinkcomingln contack with the saliva from the mduth. I attain this object by means of the device hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which--.

' Figure 1 is an enlarged view of a cigarette having a translucent mouth band, through which an imprint is seen. Fig.2 is the wrapper of a cigarette, one end of which is treated according to my invention.

When an imprint is placed on paper which is thinly coated with wax, parafiine, or similar substance, the words or devices can readily be seen through the covering. By this means 1: am enabled to place on the month end of a .cigarettewrapper any descriptive words or devices in the way of a trade-mark, advertisement, or other notice, and have the same .visible through the translucent covering, while it will be completely protected from contact with the saliva from the lips when the cigarette is being smoked.

In carrying out my invention I place the re- 'quired imprint on a narrow strip or band, B,

' the month end of the wrapper of the cigarette; or the imprint may be placed direct upon the.

side edge of the wrapper, before it is rolled up,) and then be covered wit a thin translucent coating. Fig. 2 illustrates this modification of myinvention.

A is the untreated partof the paper. 0 is the part covered as described.

On both figures the letters E. L. W. and the symbols of stars are intended to illustrate an imprint placed beneath a translucent covering.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim is- The paper blank, adapted for a cigarettewrapper, upon one end of which 1s an advertisemeut or other imprint covered with translucent paper or coating, so that the devlce beneath can be readily discernible, substantially as described. v ERICH L. WITTHAUS.

Witnesses:

F. W. SOHWAMBEOK, ANTON BINDOEIL. 

